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built by Latrobe, architect of the White House and Capitol
and other stately places to see and stay and the Hammerwood Comprehensive Guide
to tourism facilities in England and the UK

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• Here is the newly opened site of the London Tourist Board The Royal Family website is the first link from here whilst Prince Charles has his official site here, and here is Princess Diana (unofficial). Here's a schedule of Royal Engagements. here's the London Travelcard FAQHere's an extensive London Guide with useful directories of theatres, events and entertainments. NooMedia have authored some pages for a London guide featuring restaurants, clubs, fashion and other related stuff - so here it is! Click here for the Comprehensive London linkpage

• Here's Brighton and what else you'll find in Sussex - an unexciting but useful resource Here's the Inter-art site and what you'll find at Eastbourne which is quieter than Brighton

• Virtual Brighton is in the real a
  great place with King George IV palacial fun pavilion.
  Can be crowded in summer. If you want to get out of Brighton but stay nearby you might like to stay in a real Norman Castle, which happens to be one of the best hotels in England you won't regret mailing to request a brochure - nor would you regret staying a night or two. Don't forget to give your fax number or snail-mail details.

• Here's the SOUTH EAST ENGLAND TOURIST BOARD Read here what The Times says about the Tourist Boards and the Tourist Board Crown Scheme for B&Bs This site for East Grinstead is the area's best

• OpenWorld covers the rest of England (big !!! - you might get lost!) with good coverage of historic houses throughout the country and Eurostar Channel Tunnel details to Europe

• If you want B&B near East Grinstead we hope you'll come to Hammerwood or one of our UK Stately B&Bs but if we haven't got what you want here's The Better Accommodation Guide throughout England. It's extensive and most useful and it might fill gaps in our own stunning places to stay The site is a good introduction to staying in England. There's also Smooth Hound's Hotel and Guest House Directory including exclusive Internet user discounts

• If you are interested in Antiques and Fine Art, visit Anne-Noelle's UK, European, American and Worldwide comprehensive guide to Fine art and Antiques Fairs No fancy pictures here: pure information - fast! Click here for Anne-Noelle's UK and USA Antique Centres directory. No fancy pictures here: pure information - fast!

• If you are coming to South East England to enjoy music here is Mr Hinves' Tunbridge Wells & Area Music Liaison Group Diary. No fancy pictures here: pure information - fast!

• Click here for the extensive Knowwhere Guide to the UK I enjoyed my visit and found it potentially rather useful

• Here are terminal and other details of Gatwick Airport. If you're coming to London or the rest of southern England, Gatwick's the best Airport to use. If you want to stay somewhere near but not in a town click here The following site details Airport Parking at Heathrow and Gatwick.If you're heading for a place to stay in London this looks usefulIf you are travelling anywhere in England or Scotland then enjoy the peace of staying in a stately home within striking distance of wherever you're going One step into the countryside, here's the local MacDonalds-free town of East Grinstead. See below for Airlines and discounted fares

• Click here for terminal and other details of Heathrow Airport. It's big!! If you use Heathrow and you're heading north Click here for a civilised place to stay. The following site gives details of Airport Parking at Heathrow and Gatwick. If you're heading for a place to stay in London this looks useful. If you are travelling anywhere in England or Scotland then enjoy the peace of staying in a stately home within striking distance of wherever you're going. Discounted airfares are lower down this page. Click here for details of Birmingham International Airport

• Click here for car hire from the airports and throughout the UK You've heard of AVIS but it's full of fancy graphics & thin on helpfulness. This one looks much better! There's another site with low graphics here. You might also try this car hire facility with the Association of Business Travellers and here is another address- with details of traffic jam trouble spots. Please let us know what you think of these! Enquirieshave started to come about bicycling from the airports: if you're interested we have no formal details but here's a page from which to start. If you don't want to drive but want to be driven cut a dash and do it in style both in England and Europe It looks fun!

• The recently improved and most ambitious Unofficial National Trust Guide to England seems exhaustive

• Rather special cottages, in the Lake DistrictLonglands at Cartmel are here

• There's a UK Guide which is clearly a labour of love.
  

For the best and fastest loading weather maps and satellite pictures for the whole of Britain, click here - but ignore the weather description - it's for the Shetland Isles north of Scotland and usually infinitely worse than everywhere else. (However, at present you can't tell here what the weather will be - we're paying the price of ecological change!) Hardy souls should click here to visit the Shetlands Click here for two places to stay on the way from the airports to the islands and here for B&B en route going north. There's a RAVING GOOD NEW SITE for the Scottish Highlands with the best maps on the web. with an extensive section for Cromarty. There's over 60+ Scottish Links to help plan your trip here. Click here for more Scotland Travels site and here for events in Glasgow

For the opposite end of the country the Isle of Wight in the south is a favourite summer seaside spot The Isle of Wight Council is sponsoring events on the Island. The County Press will soon be expanding their entry to include weekly news of the Island. Click here for somewhere to stay in Hampshire on the way from the airports to the Isle of Wight and here for places to see throughout Hampshire. To the west is Torbay: details below. East of Hampshire is West Sussex - here is Chichester and district on the coast and here is a real Norman castle to stay in nearby

Click here for links to UK online Museums

• East Anglia Tourist Board
  
• West Country Tourist Board See also two sites for Devon below and Cornwall here
  
• Yorkshire & Humberside Tourist Board This accompanying site isn't the tourist board: Click here for Hebden Bridge Web featuring our Yorkshire Pennine small town. The chap who asked for inclusion seemed rather go-ahead but we haven't yet browsed the site. Please email your comments.
• East Midlands Tourist Board
  
• Northumbria Tourist Board

Sites run by local authorities - often non-commercially - and can be better than the Tourist Boards . . .

More interesting UK links . . .

Go to the 3rd map here for a useful and quick loading map of the UK

• Cheltenham - Centre for the Cotswolds - An unofficial guide If you would like to stay in a Stately Home within striking distance Click here

• For Hereford click here.

• Here's Wealden District Council's site which is soon to be updated with a good tourism facility. It's a MacDonalds-Free Zone.

• This is another London site linked to a really useful central London hotel near Hyde Park with excellent travel details, London tourist information and a London map and: http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/~bsb/welcom.htm - this server is in Poland. Islington is a pretty hot place in London!

• If you're interested in heritage, visit the Pavilions of Splendour Home Page

• For the luxury Hotel Barges "Barkis" and "Peggotty" in Cambridgeshire, click here!
  

• Here there's summer study at Oxford for adults, English Rose Gardens to visit and a vitual tour of the River Thames complete with resources
  

• /travmag/ is the new off-line printed travel magazine. It is supported by a comprehensive on-line support platform to help you on-line.

• Here we are small English language school - recognised by the British Council.

• If you want your mouth to water here's Wine and Dine Travel Pages

• The Association of British Travel Agents ABTA is here

• Hotel-UK is a free of charge hotel reservation service including UK tourist excursions, flight offers, sporting events, and much more.

We hope the above might be useful! We would be most grateful if you would bookmark this page and from here e-mail your opinions on how we should most usefully describe or include the sites on this page and don't forget to visit Hammerwood!

When using the Channel Tunnel don't forget you'll need to change your pounds into franks and then to marks or guilders - and each time pay a money-changer for his pranks to do it. If Member of Parliament Quentin Davies (who recently stood up for what his conscience told him to do) succeeds, European tourism upon which so much of our heritage depends will get a welcome shot in the arm. Click here for his arguments for a Common European Currency. If he was MP for my area I'd think of changing party and vote for him!

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Other UK guides

Marketing resource, a fund of helpful information and miscellaneous

Fax lists of UK Hotels and Travel Agents - and a good deal more!

the UK School Resources Page

Europe and Ireland here

And now for the rest of the World!!! . . .

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NEW SITES

Led Zeppelin built in 1792 by Latrobe, the architect of Washington's Capitol and White House.

For the best interactive road map of the UK try this one! The database isn't yet wonderfully complete but the mapping is good!

Hastings and the 1066 Country It has a "1066 Message Board", SE train map, local photos and a few other bits and bobs that you might like to check out.

The new link to Virtual Brighton is http://www.brighton.co.uk

This a great page with satelite image of europe's weather you might want to add

Here's Smooth Hound's B&B finding site

"Liked your page and plan to put a link to it from mine. Perhaps you could do likewise. http://www.priceapts.co.uk" Here's an accommodation facilities site. We've been established 40 years doing business by word of mouth until last year when I put pages with TravelASSIST and AccomoDATA. Response has been great. Many thanks

Here's our first site for Cornish ConneXions

A particularly nice B&B in Devon is here

Here is Macclesfield Borough Council's tourism highlights "Its main focus at the moment is tourism, although we are also planning to cover other subject areas such as business and environmental issues at a later stage."

Here's multi-lingual tourism pages for Cheshire County Council

LDS Tourism Services are also spreading the word about tourism in North Wales and Cheshire.Our award winning site contains details about:- Things to do and places to go, Tourist Information Points, Hotels and Guest Houses, Shows and Exhibitions, The LDS Border Tourism Centre, Distribution of tourist information and Links to other sites.

The Sandford-on-Thames Home Page (a pretty village near Oxford) and a Home Page for a particularly nice B&B in Devon

"Destination Images" site: We specialize in travel videos for the Independent Traveler who wishes to travel the Bristish Isles and other European destinatrions by auto. Our videos are of the highest quality and strive to show the real country outside the big cities.

Dine Online UK Restaurant Reviews

Here's a site dedicated to promoting Norfolk, England. Here's Wymondham, Norfolk, U.K. Contains information, tourist guide, and local news. Also information and links to companies, businesses and organizations in the region.

Cod moves in mysterious ways - this chap says! Here's Cumbria and the lake District

'Lakes Online' is a guide to the English Lake District. I want to make it THE site for the area and need all the help I can get!

Here's Worcester

Travel Britain Online News is an electronic newsletter for visitors to Britain.

From here, my Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway resource page can be reached. I am creating a comprehensive list of other pages dealing with this popular steam railway in the heart of Scotland, and hope to add more information about its history and what there is to do there as time goes by.

For a mystery site Click Here!

Lancaster Priory Church is a Benedictine foundation of 1094 built on a Roman site.

We are Accent Tours, offering personalised planned tours ot the UK to independent people. Here's another site by the same chap

May we have our pages linked to yours? British Tours, founded in 1958, are the originators of car and driver-guide sightseeing. We offer personal and flexible tours by car with qualified driver-guides.

What do you think of http://worldhotel.com? Is it worth including them despite this response to being asked for a return URL? "Because links are advertising, we try very much to limit our links. We prefer to develop our own pages interneally or through joint ventures that generate revenue for the venture. We do not care about techies, Internet surfers, or search engines. We have an audience we advertise directly to. We do not care about anyone else beyond that audience. Search engines list us because that makes them more complete. That makes them able to seek higher advertising revenues or other benefits."

Suggestion: I am going to be stuck (as so many others are) at Heathrow for about 8 hours between planes (and of course this happens to Gatwick and Stanstead) why not put in a little section for each airport or least Gatwick since it is so close to you, as to what might be doable sightseeing by taxi or perhaps rental car rather than sitting in terminal? Any ideas? Here's Gatwick Aviation Society - Old Airliners and more about Gatwick by Vince

Aardvark's EFL Resources which is my collection of addresses, links and resources for students and teachers of English as a Foreign Language ("EFL" in the trade).

International House - International Language Centres where, they hope, English language students and teachers will find more and better course information than they will anywhere else! There are some interactive exercises (in Javascript) and a "Flags & Countries Quiz" that might appeal even to non-EFL folk!

We are thinking of including this map on the main page. Useful?

If you fancy window shopping for British property you might try this

Here's the geographical searcher - so they say!

Here's USA Online who have been good enough to include us in their database

Here's WWW Yellow Pages

Here's City Net

Click here for the Discount Air Fare centre

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Airlines operating in Europe

thanks to Marc-David's Airlines of the WEB - click here for more extensive range of sites. Each may contain details of special offers

Aer Lingus -- Aer Lingus Ireland based international service

Air France -- Air France Paris based international and domestic service

AirUK (Official) -- Air UK is Britain's third largest scheduled airline

AirUK (Unofficial)

Alitalia (Official Site) -- Alitalia is the Italian international service

British Airways (Official Site) -- British Airways Global Checkin

British Airways (Unofficial Site) -- UK based international carrier

British Midland (Official Site) -- British Midland is a UK based international carrier

Brymon Airways (Official Site) -- Plymouth based British Airways affiliate

CitiFlyer Express (Official Site) -- Gatwick based British Airways affiliate

EasyJet -- England's first ticketless low cost carrier

Euram -- Low cost transatlantic service

Eurowings -- German international regional carrier

Finnair (Official Site) -- The Finnish flag carrier*

FsFan Global Airlines -- A European based virtual airline

GB Airways (Official Site) -- Gatwick based British Airways affiliate

Iberia Airlines -- The Spanish flag carrier

Interworld Airlines -- A Virtual airline

Interworld Airlines -- (Additional Site)

KLM -- The Royal Dutch national carrier

Lauda Air -- Lauda Air is an Austrian based international service

Lufthansa (Official Site) -- Lufthansa is a German based international carrier

Lufthansa (Unofficial site) -- A UK based Lufthansa site

Old Lake City -- European Virtual Airline

Sabena (Official Site) Sabena is Belgium's flag carrier

SAS (Official Site) -- Scandinavia's international carrier

SwissAir -- Swiss Air the Swiss flag carrier

Tigerfly -- UK Based "World's Smallest Airline"

Virgin Atlantic Virgin Atlantic is an excellent London based international service

North America

• Air Canada (Official Site) -- Air Canada international and domestic service
• American Airlines -- US based international and domestic service
• Canadian Airlines International -- Canadian based international and domestic service
• Continental Airlines (Official Site) -- US based international and domestic carrier
• Continental Airlines (Unofficial Site) -- Info on Continental in the UK
• Delta Air Lines (Official Site) -- One of the US "Big 3"
• Northwest Airlines (Official Site) -- US based international and domestic carrier
• Pan Am -- News on the reactivation of Pan Am
• Presidential Airlines (Unofficial Site) -- Presidential's unofficial web site
• TWA (Official Site) -- TWA - US international carrier with hubs in St. Louis and New York
• United Airlines (Official Site) -- The world's largest airline
• USAir (Official Site)) USAir is the US based domestic and international service with hubs in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, and Charlotte
• World Airways -- US based international charter/scheduled carrier

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